Tuesday, 8 December 2009

I like this video for two reasons, one it's a funny parody of the famous Pixar intro, and two it's a clever use of type. I like the fact different letters represent different jobs and people, for example P for police or the crying mother I.

Friday, 4 December 2009

On Tuesday 10th of November I was given the first of three briefs in Typographic Studies. The brief was to take a book we had read (or at least had an interest in) and to re-design the cover using only typography. I haven't really read much for a while and the only books I could remember wereDan Brown's Deception Point and Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down The House. I chose Bringing Down The House as it was one of the first books I read for enjoyment. Also I am interested in card-counting, gambling and casinos. After experimenting including burning letters into cards and scribbling code words into a 'cheat sheet'. I landed on recreating a blackjack table using typography, using a similar font to the font used to write rules on blackjack tables and a similar colour-scheme. I also used the shape of two playing cards placed one on top of the other and added a 'optical illusion' style type onto them.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Stumbling through the internet recently I found the colour of art, and it's grayish brown!! Well, the colour of art, according to designer Joshua Nimoy and the average colour from 26,000 images from the MoMAart collection.